My saints story

USo i finally decided to blog my fm13 career as saints fc manager. After several starts and fiddles with tactic, training and formations etc, i started my career. Playing classic mode with english leagues. So my first port of call is always the same when playing as saints on fm, the free agents page, with some fantastic players availble on a free for my team such as reo coker and merida who i signed and they both walked into the first team. The next thing i set about doing was to send the scouts out on extensive searches, which is basically selecting about the first 100 players in each position i have. I will return to this subject in a minute, but on to tactics and formation now. Looking to utilise the 3 key players in my opinion, i look at there best formation and roles. The players i looked to utilise the most were; adam lallana, a tricky right footed left midfielder who is also the club captain, gaston ramierez, saints record signing, a young future star fir uraguay described as the uraguain kaka and morgan sniederlin, a french deep midfielder with a high work rate, good range of passing and likes to get stuck in. On this basis i decided to play 433, with a flat back four Dm to Cm a Left and Right winger and a lone striker. Playing a counter attacking style of football.

So media expctation was to finish 18th, on experimenting with the game on other saves i didnt manage to get out of the bottom three. So my start of season expectation was to avoid relegation with transfer funds around 4m, i will be mainly fociusing on the league so cup games will be a chance to give youngsters like shaw and ward prowse a run out, also to try different tactics, player roles and formations, abd of course to get players needing match fitness in shape.

could of easily won this game by 5-6 goals but helenius wasnt finishing, he showed real promise and how much of a danger he could be. Another mom/som award for schniederlin, i knew he would be a big influence in this side. 2 wins on the trott now, things are looking ip

readin 1-1 saints
roberts. Helenius- excellent form late sub

didnt think i would get anything from this match, my front 3 were quite all game. Roberts muscled his way in the air to beat clyne at the back post and head into the bottom corner. Brought helenius on with 20 to go after roberts goal and immediatly he made a impact, scoring a 35yd bullet 2mins after coming ob and was unlucky to add to his tally. This lead to hom being called up to the senior national team for denmark. Oh and reo coker got mom

After going 2 diwn after 15 minutes i though this was going to be a heavy defeat, but a goal from helenius just before the break got us back into the came. Coming out on fire in the second half helenuis equilised straight from K.O, then completed his hatrick minutes later. He has hit form scoring 5 in 2 games for me and scoring on his senior international debut. We dominated the rest of the game forcing ethrington into a wayward backpass that ended up in his own net.

villa 3-5 saints
agbonglahor. Helenius x4!mom
wiemann. Mayuka
mckenna

Another poor first half, going in 3-1 down, mayuka getting the goal in the first half. Helenius.... What a signing he has been, 9 goals in 4, absolutely domineted the 2nd half.